ESIM Guidelines to Residents

for Clinical Case Presentations

Each country will have the opportunity to present one case to the rest of the School (countries with at least 4 participants will present two cases).

Make sure that you have identified who will be presenting the cases from your country before you arrive, and allow enough time for preparation and liaison with your fellow nationals. Please tell us the name of your designated speakers nearer the date of ESIM.

As there are likely to be 15+ countries presenting during the week, time management is important. We kindly request that you follow our rules:

1. Duration: 10 minutes maximum!! Plus 5 minutes for questions and discussion.

2. Slides: 10 - 12 maximum.

3. Start with a SHORT introduction (1-2 slides) about how the case presented initially.

Identify the key points and develop the overall strategy for the case work-up together

with the audience.

4. Identify the main hypotheses for the diagnosis, asking for suggestions from the audience.

5. Describe the further development of the case and the diagnostic work-up.

Concentrate on important positive findings.

6. List the key elements regarding the natural cause and principles for treatment for the case

in question. There will not be time for a broad discussion of the disease as a whole.

7. Summarize the main learning points and what you learnt from this case.

8. Drug names: please use generic names, avoid trade names and abbrevations.

Eponymous syndromes: In addition please provide alternative accepted names eg Hughes Syndrome (anti-phospholipid syndrome).

If you quote results please give reference range e.g. TSH 1.83mU/L (0.35-6.00)

9. Try to avoid embedding moving images (e.g. echocardiograms) into your presentation as we have had problems with the programs working. You can bring the moving images as a separate file if these are to be presented.

10. Exclude any patient identification from scans, ECG etc. (as presentations will subsequently be posted on the ESIM website).

11. Identify the diagnosis at the end of your presentation.